39-42, Shakespeare Street

A row of four houses at 39-42 Shakespeare Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, was built in the 1840s as part of the early 19th-century development of the town's New Town area. The houses are constructed of brick with buff brick headers and stucco dressings, and have a slate roof with two brick stacks arranged crosswise. Designed in a Georgian style, the terrace is two storeys high and has a seven-window frontage, with a corner section projecting at an angle towards Mulberry Street. The top of the building features a brick cornice. The entrances are topped with flat brick arches and stucco keys; number 38 has a six-panel door, numbers 39 and 40 have 20th-century doors, and number 42 has an entrance set back with a timber doorcase and a 20th-century door, above which is a stucco panel with remnants of a painted shop sign. The windows have sills, brick flat arches, and stucco keys, with 16-pane sashes on the ground floor and 9-pane sashes on the first floor. Number 38 has a blind window above the entrance, and number 42 has a bowed window on the ground floor, with a frieze and cornice above small-paned glazing. The rear elevation has a bow window with a blind window above, altered windows to the right end, an end stack, and an attached two-storey outhouse.